Subject: Re: Success!
To: John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 10/11/2001 18:12:33
Actually, I just compiled glib from the pkgsrc tree, and grabbed the gtk
package...  Dillo is currently compiling.

Adam

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, John Utz wrote:

> try porting dillo. it is a pretty good browser so far.
> 
> there is also WML? from centurion? but i thingk dillo is better, and
> their is work to port that to the ipaq going on.
> 
> oops, but this is gtk, and you dont want that, correct?
> 
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well, after compiling my own kernel for my IBM z50, I decided to move and
> > and try to make it even more usable.  What I really wanted was an AIM
> > client and a web browser.  Running netscape remotely is one thing when I'm
> > doing it at my apartment, but something completely different if I'm on the
> > road.  So I decided to try and get mozilla and gaim running...
> >
> > My first hitch was that they both need gtk+, which requires glib.  Though
> > there's a package for gtk+, there doesn't appear to be one for glib,
> > unfortunately.  So, I grabbed the pkgsrc tarball, installed it on my home
> > machine, and made it available to the z50 over NFS.  This has really
> > turned out to be a life saver.  I changed into the gaim directory, and
> > gave the make command.  Twelve hours and a nine packages later, it was
> > churning away on gtk+.  I had glib, jpeg-6b, tiff, png, perl, digest,
> > gettext, gettext-m4, and libtool-base.  All, just so I could get gaim
> > installed :-)  Well, with all those installed packages, I was really
> > beginning to lose diskspace, and I knew that gtk+ would really start to
> > push me up there.
> >
> > Well, I gave up on gaim...  Instead, I remembered that there was a tcl/tk
> > AIM client.  I grabbed the tcl package, and am now compiling the tk
> > package from the pkgsrc tree.  Luckily, they're moderately small in size.
> >
> > In the mean time, I've installed Arena.  I've realized that there's no way
> > mozilla is going to fit on this thing, especially with packages like perl
> > loaded :-)  I've gotten rid of all the packages I can (tiff, perl, glib,
> > etc) and am now down to 74%.  I imagine that tk (when it's installed)
> > won't get me too much higher.
> >
> > I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations about any other good, small,
> > lightweight, web browsers that they've gotten to work under
> > NetBSD/hpcmips?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> 
>